Abstract
The hippocampus bulges into the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle, and its general appearance does indeed resemble a sea horse. It is arched around the mesencephalon and divided into three segments:A body, or middle segment, which is sagittally orientedA head, or anterior segment, which is transversely oriented and which shows elevations, the digitationes hippocampiA tail, or posterior segment, which is also oriented transversely and which narrows, disappearing beneath the splenium
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Duvernoy, H., Cattin, F., & Risold, P.-Y. (2013). Structure, Functions, and Connections. In The Human Hippocampus (pp. 5–38). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33603-4_3
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